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Dan Spangenberger

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Data Binding in Backbone with Epoxy

By Dan Spangenberger on Aug 13, 2013 6:02:00 PM

At Salsify we're developing a single-page Javascript app backed by Rails. We've done so with Backbone, extending its functionality through various extension projects when needed (Marionette, Cocktail, etc). The project we've made the most use of lately is Epoxy, and that's what I'll talk about today.

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Using Cocktail To Create Mixins for Backbone Models That Respect Inheritance

By Dan Spangenberger on Jun 17, 2013 8:00:00 PM

At Salsify we use Backbone heavily to represent our data, fully embracing its Model/Collection paradigm. Backbone models and collections in fact represent all server-managed state in our single-page Javascript client application. We also use Backbone views, relying heavily on Marionette to structure our presentation and Epoxy to bind our model data to the DOM in our views.

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